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Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa
This book is concerned with the first peoples (those people who are considered indigenous by themselves and others) of southern Africa such as the San, the Nama, and the Khoi, and their rights. Although living in democratic countries like Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana --and in principle sharing the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of the population--practice shows that these peoples more often than not are at the margins of the societies in which they live; they often face extreme poverty, and they frequently are subjected to discriminatory treatment and exposed to all kinds of human rights abuses. Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He has done extensive research and development work in southern Africa in general and among San peoples in particular. Diana Vinding is an anthropologist working with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Copenhagen.
Prophets and Bad Guys
Mohammad Baghai, a Muslim terrorist who is about to execute an American, suddenly releases his hostage for no apparent reason. He sneaks into the United States, converts to Christianity, and then surrenders to the FBI. Casey Edgars, a prominent televangelist, proclaims Baghai to be a prophet of God and demands a presidential pardon. When President Jennifer Hays refuses, she faces an impeachment movement led by partisan politicians. Hays is able to use a terrorist attack in America and exploit an anomaly in the Constitution to defeat her political enemies. Set in the far-flung areas of Pensacola, Florida; Dahlonega, Georgia; and Washington, D.C.; this religious/political thriller is a contemporary nail biter. The debut novel of author Richard Staples was inspired by the book 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Wiese. He lives in Atlanta with Jackie, his wife of 24 years. His next book is about ghosts and spirits, and their inability to move on to the afterlife. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ProphetsAndBadGuys.htm
Building Early Social and Emotional Relationships with Infants and Toddlers
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the process of building healthy early social and emotional relationships with infants from a developmental perspective. The book synthesizes current research on the contextual influences of attachment, family relationships, and caregiving practices on social-emotional development. Chapters examine the processes of socioemotional development—particularly in relationships with parents, other family members, and peers—and identify areas for promoting healthy attachments and resilience, improving caregiving skills, and intervening in traumatic and stressful situations. Chapters also present empirically-supported intervention and prevention progr...
Language and Power. The Implications of Language for Peace and Development
Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent words may be used to conceal a reality which people would have reacted to had the phenomena been described in a straightforward manner. The nice and innocent concept "cost sharing", which leads our thoughts to communal sharing and solidarity, may actually imply privatization. The false belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to have it as a language of instruction actually becomes ...
Shallow Crevices
Cecilia Christopher is poised to conquer the world. Fresh out of Malibu High School and blessed with a supportive show business family, she moves directly into the film industry to stake out her own place in Hollywood. With her lifelong best friend at her side, it isnt long before the rising star hooks up with the seemingly perfect man that is Adrian Montgomery. But things arent exactly as perfect as they seem, and Cecilia is soon perched at the top of a roller-coaster ride she never saw coming! Is love a game, a battlefield, or a shifting puzzle filled with jagged little pieces? Our heroine is about to find out, and shes going to need all her wits about her as she makes her way to a breathless finish! Shallow Crevices is Ms. Saphers debut novel, filled with a dangerous sense of romance thats mined straight from her own thoughts of darkness and light.
Vulnerable Children
They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans. In areas of the world torn by poverty, disease, and war, millions of children are invisible victims, deprived of home, family, and basic human rights. Their chances for a stable adult life are extremely slim. The powerful interdisciplinary volume Vulnerable Children brings a global child-rights perspective to the lives of indigenous, refugee, and minority children in and from crisis-prone regions. Focusing on self-determination, education, security, health, and related issues, an international panel of scholars examines the structural and political sources of children's vulnerabilities and their effects on development. The book analyzes int...
The Cambridge Handbook of Parenting
Parenting is a critical influence on the development of children across the globe. This handbook brings together scholars with expertise on parenting science and interventions for a comprehensive review of current research. It begins with foundational theories and research topics, followed by sections on parenting children at different ages, factors that affect parenting such as parental mental health or socioeconomic status, and parenting children with different characteristics such as depressed and anxious children or youth who identify as LGBTQ. It concludes with a section on policy implications, as well as prevention and intervention programs that target parenting as a mechanism of change. Global perspectives and the cultural diversity of families are highlighted throughout. Offering in-depth analysis of key topics such as risky adolescent behavior, immigration policy, father engagement, family involvement in education, and balancing childcare and work, this is a vital resource for understanding the most effective policies to support parents in raising healthy children.
A grammar of Fwe
This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe. Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some 20,000 people. Very little previous documentation exists on the language, and the current description of Fwe is based exclusively on newly collected field data. It includes an analysis of the grammatical structure of Fwe, followed by basic cultural information on greetings, a Fwe narrative with its English translation, and a lexicon comprising some 2200 Fwe lexemes with their English translation. This book is intended as a resource for linguists, whether interested in African languages, Bantu languages, language typology, or general linguistics.
Scarcity
A teenage girl is kidnapped in Mexico City as a young boy in Afghanistan is wounded by artillery fire. A plane crashes in Florida while a man desperately waits for a new heart in Maryland. A senator’s daughter is critically injured in a car accident as a captured drug runner makes a deal with the DEA. Before he can settle into his new job with Homeland Security, Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself pulled into the seedy world of black market organ trading. With help from an old friend from Interpol he soon uncovers an evil well fed by the desperation of good people. An evil that strikes with the power to force its deeds on anyone. Jack soon learns that in order to defeat such an enemy, he may have to go to war against his own people, and himself
